11.19.19 Oyster Farm, Vineyard, and welcome to Hobart

This morning started with delight. At the Lodge, you can choose between dining in the restaurant for dinner or having a "hamper" delivered to your room. This morning, we chose the hamper and it was magical.

 

 

It was filled with yogurt, granola, fruit, rolls, pastries, butter, jam, meats, cheese, juice, and milk plus plates and bowls. We couldn't get over how nice it was. Of course we ate it all on the deck.

 

Check out is 10 am so we booked the Freycinet Oyster Farm Experience through Oyster Bay Tours for 10:00 am. This was such a great experience. We headed out to an oyster farm and got into the water to see how it all worked.

 

 

We even got to sample the oysters right in the water. Then, we headed back to dry land for more oysters, a shucking lesson, and to sample the mussels.

 

 

 

The owner started harvesting mussels when he noticed that mussels were growing naturally on the ropes that held the oysters in the bay. 

Back at the shop, we also tried Sea urchin. I'll let Glenn tell you about that on his blog. Spoiler Alert: It was not my favorite.

Then, we hit the road toward Hobart. We made one stop at Freycinet Vineyards. We met a nice couple from nearby and their guest from New Zealand.

Glenn did an awesome job driving. We passed farm lands, forests, coast lines, cliffs and rivers and then navigated through the city to our Apartment Hotel.

We enjoyed a happy hour with local beers, wines and spirits at Cascade Bar at the hotel. We also tried New Brunswick Hotel for a beer. We stocked up on water and breakfast food at Woolworths and then headed back to the hotel to do laundry and call it an early night.